Vitrification in assisted reproduction

Content: \"\"Front Cover\"\"
 \"\"Contents\"\"
 \"\"Foreword\"\"
 \"\"Preface\"\"
 \"\"Acknowledgments\"\"
 \"\"Contributors\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 1: Overview of biological vitrification\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 2: Vitrification of oocytes and embryos: Finally a recognized technique, but still a source of concern and debate\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 3: Intracellular concentration of cryoprotectant during vitrification and slow-freezing cryopreservation procedures\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 4: Importance of cooling versus warming rates in vitrification techniques\"\" \"\"Chapter 5: The movement of water and cryoprotectants in mammalian oocytes and embryos: Membrane permeability and aquaporins\"\"\"\"Chapter 6: Open versus closed systems\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 7: Automatic vitrification: Development of the Gavi system\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 8: Vitrification at minimum volume: From basic science to clinical application\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 9: Vitrification of oocytes: General considerations and the use of the Cryotec method\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 10: Safety of vitrification and cryostorage and optimization of cryopreservation protocols\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 11: Physiological aspects of oocyte vitrification\"\" \"\"Chapter 12: Vitrification of oocytes: Imprinting and disturbance in spindle formation and chromosome segregation\"\"\"\"Chapter 13: Metabolic profile of day 3 embryos arising from vitrified oocytes\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 14: Vitrification of human oocytes for in vitro fertilization patients\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 15: Oocyte vitrification: Donor “egg banking�\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 16: Fertility preservation for oncology patients\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 17: Vitrification of human ovarian tissue\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 18: Vitrification of cleavage-stage embryos and blastocysts and their neonatal outcomes\"\" \"\"Chapter 19: Vitrification of human blastocysts: Clinical realities and neonatal outcomes\"\"\"\"Chapter 20: Development and hatching of human blastocysts after vitrification and warming\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 21: Does storage of vitrified blastocysts have an impact on implantation potential and birth rate?\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 22: Ovarian tissue vitrificationâ€\"Clinical realities and outcomes\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 23: Vitrification of human testicular tissue, spermatogonia, and spermatozoa\"\"
 \"\"Chapter 24: Vitrification in pluripotent stem cell banking: Requirements and technical solutions for large-scale biobanks\"\"